Sheaf-tie



PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV. 22, 1902.

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{:BPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,783, datedJanuary 5, 1904.

Application filed November 22, 1902. Serial No. 132,457- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES CONNELL PAR: KER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Woodston, in the county of Rooks and State ofKansas, have invented a new and useful sheaf-Tie, of which the followingis a specification.

This'invention relates to a novel tie or binder for binding a sheaf ofcorn or other cereal.

The object of the invention is to produce a tie adapted particularly foruse in connection with a sheaf-forming device invented by me anddisclosed in my concurrent application, No. 132,153, for Letters Patent,the tie being provided with series of catches disposed adjacent to itsends to facilitate the automatic connection of said ends when broughttogether at one side of the sheaf, around which the tie is placed.

To the accomplishment of this object the invention in its preferredembodiment resides in those features of construction and arrangement tobe hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, andsuccinctly defined in the appended claim.

In said drawings, Figure l is a plan view of one form of tie. Fig. 2 isa perspective View showing the man nor in which the catches interlock toconnect the ends of the tie. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showinganother form of tie. Fig. 4 is a perspective View illustrating themanner in which the catches interlock. Fig. 5 is asectional view showingtwo catches about to be drawn into engaging relation, and Fig. 6 is aperspective view showing another way in which the catches may beengaged.

Like characters of reference are employed to designate correspondingparts throughout the several views.

Referring first to Figs. 1 and 2, 1 indicates a tie, which is preferablya continuous strand of Wire formed at its opposite ends withdouble-ended catches 2 and 3. Each of the catches is in the form of aloop 4, disposed lengthwise of the tie and connected thereto by a shank5, formed by intertwisting a double strand of the wire. The doubling ofthe wire to form the shanks 5 materially increases the stability of theconnection between the ends of the tie and renders them sufiicientlystiff to maintain the loops 4 in their proper positions in spacedrelation to.

the tie, so as to facilitate their engagement when brought together. Thecatches 2 are disposed at the side of the tie opposite the catches 3, sothat as the tie is brought around the sheaf oppositely-disposed catchesat opposite ends of the tie may be readily brought into interlockingengagement, two shanks contacting with each other and the loopsextending beyond the opposite sides of the tie proper, as shown in Fig.2. By forming the tie with series of oppositelydisposed double-endedcatches at its ends it may be drawn tightly around sheaves of difierentsizes and locked by bringing the ends of the tie in crossing relation,so as to present two catches in position to engage each other, and bythen permitting the expansion of the sheaf to draw the two catches intothe positions shown in Fig. 2.

While the form of tie thus far described is, perhaps,preferable byreason of its strength, simplicity, and inexpensiveness, a furtherembodiment of the invention (shown in the last four figures of thedrawings) is precisely as edective and is equally well adapted formanipulation by the sheaf-former disclosed in my other application. Thisembodiment of the invention comprehends a tie 1, formed by intertwistingtwo strands, preferably formed by doubling a single length of wire uponitself. Adjacent to the ends of the tie the latter is provided withcatch-blocks 2 and 3 each of which is provided with a V- shaped notch 6in each end thereof, defining a shank 7, passed between the strands ofthe tie and connecting apair of double-ended catches 8 and 9, located atopposite sides of the strand and disposed lengthwise thereof.

In this form of tie, as in the other, it is simply necessary to bringits ends together and to permit the expansion of the sheaf to draw twoof the blocks into engaging relation, the tie adjacent to one blockbeing passed into the notch 6 of an adjacent block, as shown in Fig. 5,and drawn back-until the two blocks engage, as shown in Fig. 4, it beingnoted that by reason of the double-ended formation of the notches it'isimmaterial which way the band is bent around the sheaf or what positionsthe blocks may assume, provided only that they may be engaged by thecrossing and drawing back of the ends of the tie. To facilitate theretention of the tie within the notch 63, each block is formed at thebase or inner end of each notch with a substantially circular recess 10.When two of the blocks are brought into engaging relation, the tie willenter the notched end of the block, as stated, and will be receivedwithin a recess 10, from which it will not become readily dis engaged.It is not absolutely essential that this character of connection betweenthe blocks be eifected in order to secure the ends of the tie, becauseif it should happen that two adjacent blocks should be disposed at rightangles to each other the shank of each will be received within a notchof the other and an engagement, such as is shown in Fig. 6, will thus beeffected.

It will be observed from the foregoing that I have produced a novel tiedesigned to constitute a binder for a sheaf and provided withoppositely-disposed double-ended catches at its opposite ends arrangedto automatically engage when the tie is passed around a sheaf and itsends crossed either by manual manipulation or by means of asheaf-forming device.

It is thought that from the foregoing the construction and mode ofmanipulation of the tie will be clearly apparent; but while theillustrated embodiments of the invention are believed at this time to bepreferable I do not limit myself to the structural details defined, but,on the contrary, reserve to myself the right to eifect such changes,modifications, and variations of the illustrated structure as may befairly embraced within the scope of the protection prayed.

What I claim is- A sheaf-tie, provided at each end with a series ofdouble-ended catches disposed lengthwise of the strand, and connected tosaid strand by transversely-disposed shanks, the catches of one seriesbeing located at the side of the strand opposite the other series ofcatches, the intervals between the catches of each series correspondingto the intervals between the catches of the other series, whereby whenthe two endsof the tie are moved simultaneously around a sheaf andcrossed by the corresponding movement of both ends, correspondingcatches of opposite series will be engaged by the expansion of the sheafto interlock the ends of the tie at the point of intersection.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES CONNELL PARKER.

Witnesses:

E. P. LEACH, JOHN Bmnqns.

